Claim On Fishing Limit Withdrawn

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30809, 22 July 1965, Page 3

Claim On Fishing Limit Withdrawn

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, July 21. A claim made in the Magistrate’s Court on Monday that foreign fishing vessels were permitted in waters forbidden to New Zealand fishermen was today withdrawn.

Mr R. J. Hall, ordered by Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., to verify statements that a line of prohibition in waters in the Milford Sound area extended beyond the three-mile limit, today told the Magistrate this was not in fact true. Appearing for William Marshall Gallon, who pleaded guilty to having taken crayfish from a prohibited area, Mr Hall also withdrew his assertion that new boundaries were about to be gazetted. There was no doubt this move was afoot and that many Port Chalmers fish-

ermen believed the line had been altered, but there had been considerable delays, Mr Hall said. Mr W. F. Thomson, who represented the inspector of fisheries, produced a letter to prove there had been no official representation for the alteration of the line. “You have made two representations which are quite incorrect,” the Magistrate told Mr Hail. Gallon was convicted and fined £3O, costs £1 10s, and solicitor’s fee £4 ss.